Systemic corticosteroids for allergic fungal rhinosinusitis and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis: A comparative study

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 252-257

  Landsberg, Roee ^a   Segev, Yoram ^a   DeRowe, Ari ^a   Landau, Tali ^b   Khafif, Avi ^a   Fliss, Dan M ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTACID AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC RHINITIS; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOSIS; NOSE POLYP; NOSE SURGERY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RHINOSINUSITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOSES; NASAL POLYPS; PREDNISONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINITIS; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846646143     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2006.09.010     Document Type: Article

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